Note 2 — THE GOVERNMENT AND DEATH OF BUSTAMANTE

The Jesuit Delgado says of this (Hist. de Filipinas, p. 205): “I was at that time in Manila, and saw the bodies of those unfortunate men, dragged along, stripped of their garments, and covered with some old rags; and I was obliged, in order that I might enter the anteroom of the palace, to step over the body of the governor, which was lying across the threshold of the door.” The editor of Delgado reproduces in a footnote Otazo’s letter (q.v. in this volume, post), with the following remark: “Don José Montero y Vidal, in his Historia de la piratería, t. 1, p. 254, asserts that Don Fernando de Bustamante was assassinated in a tumult at the head of which the Jesuits placed themselves. The following document will show that gentleman the falsity of his assertion.” ↑